Combined rake and pitchfork.



P. B. BREEDEN.

COMBINED RAKE AND PITCHPORK.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV.16, 1912.

1,061 ;217. Patented May 6, 1913.

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UNTTED STATES PriilEN T OFFICE.

PRINCE IB. BREEDEN, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

COMBINED RAKE AND PITCHFORK.

Application filed November 15, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Pam on B. Bnnnnnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia,have invented new and useful .Improvements in Combined Rakes andPitchforks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined rake and pitch fork; and has for anobject to provide a head which may be adjusted angularly of the handleand securely held n its required adjusted position, so that 1n oneposition it may be used as a rake while in another position it may beused as a pitch fork.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for determiningfixed adjustments of the head with relation to the handle and forfacilitating the adjustments of the head.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, aswill be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of thedevice; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section therethrough,showing the headadjusted to a position for use as a pitch fork; and Fig. 3 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 2, showing the head adjusted to a position for use as arake.

The handle 1 herein illustrated is provided at one end with a fixedsleeve 2, which terminates beyond the end of the handle in a socket 3 ofsplit portions 4 and 5, said portions being adapted to be sprung aroundthe bar 6 of the head 7 whereby to permit of free rocking movement ofthe head according to the angular adjustment thereof which may bedesired. The portion 4: is provided with a slot 8 having a stop shoulder9 for a purpose to be hereinafter described. A similar slot 10 in theportion 5 terminates in a shoulder 11, which is disposed immediatelyopposite the first shoulder 9.

As stated the head 7 is adapted for rocking adjustments on the handle 1and in view thereof, and in order that the head may be positivelyretained in different adjusted positions, I provide the bar 6 withradially projecting lugs 12 and 13. The shoulder 11 of the slot 10 isdisposed in the direct path of the lug 13, and is adapted to engagetherewith when the head 7 is adjusted for Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented May 6,1913.

Serial No. 731,616.

use as a rake, the slot 10 being designed to accommodate movements ofthe lug 13 toward and away from said shoulder 11, as is evident. Theshoulder 9 is adapted to come in mutual contact with the lug 12 of thebar 6 and thereby limit the pivotal or rocking adjustment of the head 7in one direction and permit said head to be operatively associated withthe handle in the form of a pitch fork. The handle 1 has one of itsterminals spaced from the bar 6, so as to provide an intervening recess14L therebetween to singly accommodate the lugs 12 and 13. The sleeve 2is exteriorly threaded, as at 15, through a portion of its length anddesigned to accommodate a correspondingly threaded clamping nut 16. Aretaining collar 17 is slidable on the sleeve 2 forwardly of thethreaded portion 15 thereof and immediately in advance of the clampingnut 16. A flared outer portion 18 of the collar is adapted to partlyembrace the walls of the socket as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 3of the drawings. lVhen the collar is in the position shown in Fig. 2,the edge 19 thereof is in contact with a flared wall 20 of the lug 12.The clamping nut 16 is adjusted to bear against the collar 17 and tomove the latter in a direction to insure such contact of the edge 19with said lug 12, as will confine the latter against the shoulder 9. Thehead 7 is then held longitudinally in a fixed position upon thehandle 1. The lug 13 being concealed in the recess let between the bar16 of said head 7 and an adjacent end of the handle 1. When the lug 12is arranged in the recess 141:, the other lug 13 will be projectedthrough the slot 10 and seated against the shoulder 11 and confinedagainst the latter by adjusting the nut 16 and collar 17 in thepreviously described manner.

The construction of the device is such that different adjustment of thehead 7 may be made according to the character of the work to beperformed and in effect the tool presents such combination of elementsas will facilitate the adjustment of the head to the variously describedpositions and insures holding the head rigidly fixed in its adjustedposition.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A handle having asleeve secured thereto and terminating beyond the end of the handie in asocket, the said socket having its walls provided With oppositelydisposed slots, 2. head mounted for rocking move ments in the socket andprovided with a plurality of radial lugs, one of the lugs being adaptedto engage with one of the walls of one of said slots on one adjustmentof the head, the other lug being adapted to engage with one of the Wallsof the other slot on another adjustment of the head, and means 10adjustably mounted on the sleeve and adapted to singly engage with thelugs.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

PRINCE B. BREEDEN.

WVitnesses:

GUY IRVIN MGLEAN, WILLIAM D. MARTIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. G.

